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From: John Levine <johnl@taugh.com>
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Subject: Re: The Design of Design
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According to Thomas Koenig  <tkoenig@netcologne.de>:
>> Yes, but remember that includes softwre revenue, which has higher
>> margins than hardware revenue.  I believe I saw somewhere that IBM made
>> more from MVS, DB2, CICS, etc.
>
>SAP S4/HANA is going to hurt their bottom line, then.  Earlier
>versions of SAP could, I understand, run on zOS and DB2, S4/HANA
>requires SAP's in-house database and requires Linux.

I dunno how much of a problem it'll be. IBM has put a lot of work into
getting zSeries to run Linux well.

I realize neither you nor I would buy a mainframe to run Linux, but we
wouldn't run SAP either.


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